ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a number of the syntactic and semantic points about naked infinitive (NI) complements. The individual events account of perceptual reports makes essential use of D. Davidson's view that ordinary predicates, or some of them anyway, contain an extra argument-place for events. Among the grammatical conjunctions of English only truth-functional conjunction 'and' and disjunction 'or' occur with NI complements. S. Neale's contribution contains a substantive discussion of the interpretation of sentences containing negated NI complements. The most significant feature of that framework is the thesis that the only ways of combining constituents, apart from that of predicate and individual argument, are given by the quantifiers and truth functions. Arguments of higher type then go by the board, and combinations that have been taken on the model of functions of higher type call for other devices to play the role of semantic glue.
